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Holy cripes, the video project has finally gotten started!
Llorean:
Right now it has to be a video-only Mpeg-1 or Mpeg-2 stream, I believe. The extension expected is M2V.
crescentfresh:
Ah, ok. From the release notes, I thought it could play any mpg1 or mpg2 files, but with no sound. My bad.
Llorean:
It's very *very* far from being particularly usable yet.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: linuxstb on August 08, 2006, 08:11:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: senab on August 08, 2006, 05:24:45 AM ---In terms of complexity, how complex is MPEG2 to decode? I know H264 is more much more complex, but what about straight MPEG4-V?
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The short answer is that I don't know - but I would expect MPEG-4 to be more complex. Newer codecs normally are... But then again, I expected mpegplayer to perform better with MPEG-1 files than MPEG-2, but it seems to decode them at a similar speed.
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IIRC for progressive scan video, MPEG1 and MPEG2 are actually very, very similar. I don't really remember where I heard that though.
senab:
I'd love for the future of this, that Rockbox could output a PAL/NTSC TV resolution picture. I don't think it really matters what the codec used is (although the OSS encoders for the MPEG4 are much better than MPEG2). For this to happen though, I can see three stumbling blocks:
1) The broadcom core (on iPod 5G) needs to figured out how to be used
2) The decoder will need optimizing big time (as will the audio)
3) The iPod's video out pin on the 3.5mm needs to be figured out how to be utilized
This may well just be a dream lol. :D
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